NP/PA, Senior Community Care - Lewis, Thurston WA
About The Position
Optum’s Senior Community Care team provides meaningful, longitudinal care to medically complex patients in community-based residential settings throughout Lewis and Thurston counties in Washington. This is a full-time, field-based position serving patients in assisted living, independent living, adult family or foster homes, senior living apartments, and private homes. As the primary Advanced Practice Clinician for a patient panel, you make clinical decisions with support from an integrated interdisciplinary team and collaborate with each patient’s PCP. The value-based care model emphasizes quality rather than patient volume or productivity quotas. You will care for high-risk Medicare members with multiple comorbidities, advanced disease states, and complex treatment needs, addressing medical, behavioral, functional, and social needs in partnership with caregivers, facility teams, and other healthcare professionals. The role offers clinical autonomy, ownership of a patient panel and schedule, and the opportunity to build long-term relationships with patients, caregivers, and facility teams. The schedule can be five eight-hour days or four ten-hour days. No on-call work, weekends, or holidays are required.
Requirements
- For Nurse Practitioners: Graduate of an accredited Master of Science in Nursing or Doctor of Nursing Practice program.
- For Nurse Practitioners: Active and unrestricted Nurse Practitioner license in the state of residence, or ability to obtain it by the start date.
- For Nurse Practitioners: Board certification through the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners or the American Nurses Credentialing Center in Family, Adult, Gerontology, Adult-Gerontology Acute Care, or Adult-Gerontology Primary Care nursing.
- For Physician Assistants: Graduate of an accredited Physician Assistant degree program.
- For Physician Assistants: Active and unrestricted Physician Assistant license in the state of residence, or ability to obtain it by the start date.
- For Physician Assistants: Board certification by the National Commission on Certification of Physician Assistants (NCCPA).
- Current, active DEA licensure/prescriptive authority, or ability to obtain it after hire, per state regulations, unless prohibited in the state of practice.
- Ability to obtain a collaborative practice agreement, if applicable in the state.
- Ability to meet physical requirements, including moving a 30-pound bag in and out of a car, navigating stairs and varied dwelling conditions, remaining stationary, and positioning oneself to perform physical assessments.
- Driver’s license and access to reliable transportation.
Nice To Haves
- One or more years of clinical practice experience; long-term care, skilled nursing facility, or assisted living experience preferred.
- Experience meeting the medical needs of patients with complex behavioral, social, and/or functional needs.
- Understanding of geriatrics and chronic illness.
- Understanding of advanced illness and end-of-life discussions.
- Proficient computer skills, including documenting medical information in written and electronic medical records.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills, including the ability to work effectively across an interdisciplinary care team with RNs and Care Navigators.
Responsibilities
- Conduct comprehensive patient assessments.
- Manage acute and chronic conditions, including testing, diagnostics, and interventions.
- Develop and manage complex treatment plans.
- Lead advanced illness, goals-of-care, and advance care planning conversations.
- Collaborate with the interdisciplinary care team, facilities, and caregivers.
- Provide patient and caregiver education.
- Ensure accurate and complete clinical documentation.
Benefits
- $40,000 student loan repayment or a $30,000 sign-on bonus for eligible individuals who have not previously participated in the program.
- $2,500 relocation assistance.
- Competitive base salary plus performance bonus incentives.
- 23 days of PTO plus 9 paid holidays.
- Comprehensive benefits package.
- Incentive and recognition programs.
- Equity stock purchase.
- 401(k) contribution.
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